Isaiah 27:10-11

10 The fortified city stands desolate, an abandoned settlement, forsaken like the wilderness; there the calves graze, there they lie down; they strip its branches bare.
11 When its twigs are dry, they are broken off and women come and make fires with them. For this is a people without understanding; so their Maker has no compassion on them, and their Creator shows them no favor.

Isaiah 27:10-11 Meaning and Commentary

INTRODUCTION TO ISAIAH 27

This chapter refers to the same times as the two foregoing ones Isa 25:1-26:21; and is a continuation of the same song, or rather a new one on the same occasion; it is prophetical of the last times, and of what shall be done in them, as the destruction of the antichristian powers, and Satan at the head of them, Isa 27:1 the happy state of the church, and its fruitfulness under the care and protection of the Lord, and his affection for it, Isa 27:2-4 its peace, prosperity, and flourishing condition, Isa 27:5,6 the nature, use, and end of all its afflictions and chastisements, Isa 27:7-9 the ruin and destruction of the city of Rome, and its inhabitants, and of its whole jurisdiction, Isa 27:10,11 a great gathering and conversion of the Lord's people, both Jews and Gentiles, by the ministry of the Gospel, Isa 27:12,13.

Cross References 9

  • 1. S Genesis 1:2; S Deuteronomy 13:16; Isaiah 5:6; Isaiah 32:14; Jeremiah 10:22; Jeremiah 26:6; Lamentations 1:4; Lamentations 5:18
  • 2. S Isaiah 5:5
  • 3. S Isaiah 5:17
  • 4. Isaiah 17:2
  • 5. S Isaiah 10:33
  • 6. S ver 4; Isaiah 33:12
  • 7. S Deuteronomy 32:28; S Isaiah 1:3; Jeremiah 8:7
  • 8. Deuteronomy 32:18; Isaiah 41:8; Isaiah 43:1,7,15; Isaiah 44:1-2,21,24
  • 9. S Isaiah 9:17; Jeremiah 11:16
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